Project Manager

**What is this position about?**

BNP Paribas has a presence in nearly 80 countries with over 180,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Institutional Banking.

In Asia Pacific, the BNP Paribas Group is a leading employer with 9,000 employees and a presence in 14 markets. Being one of the largest international banking networks, we strive to employ talented and innovative people who are aligned to our vision and culture.

Within CIB (Corporate and Institutional Banking), the Business line Global Banking (GB) is recognized universally for its expertise and its know-how.

APAC GB CEFS Projects & Change team is at the heart of Global Banking, playing a critical role in enabling new business and projects across Global Banking, contributing to alignment between Front Office and Functions, as well as being the architects (end-to-end) of the Global Banking Value Chain.

The team hosts 2 main mandates:

- The Program / Project Managers for vertical (front-office to accounting) or transversal (across several business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects during all its life cycle (from design to completion). The team leads projects initiated from the APAC region or leads the regional stream of Global/non-APAC projects.
- The Business Process Subject Matter Expert to assist the business in the design and review of their new business initiatives and exceptional transactions and to represent IT, Operations and in some cases Finance, at new business approval committees: Transaction Approval Committee (“TAC”) and New Activity Committee (“NAC”).

The key interactions are with the project sponsors, Front-office and all the functions (Operations, IT, Finance, as well as Compliance, Legal and Tax) mainly within Global Banking business lines but we also step in at some occasions on projects involving Global Markets, Wealth Management or Securities Services.
- The team reports hierarchically to the CIB APAC ITO Operations Head.

For this role we are looking at a strong Program / Project Manager profile with a focus on Credit or Cash Management as a key priority and with a strong objective to work on Industrialization and Location strategy for Credit or Cash Management Value Chain.

Domain / SME knowledge on Credit or Cash Management would be an advantage.

**What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like?**

Primary Role Responsibilities:
? Project framing
- Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues
- Confirm the sponsorship
- Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits
- Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the project
- Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study

? Study / Design phase:

- Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project
- Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements
- Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution
- Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings)
- Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)
- Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan)
- Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources

? Execution phase:

- Drive the execution of the roadmap
- Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community
- Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan
- Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required
- Monitor the budget consumption
- Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required
- Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate

? Completion phase:

- Collect feedback from project participants
- Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement
- Update project management toolkit with lessons learnt

The Program / Project Manager is also accountable for ensuring that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:

- Overall sound IT architecture
- Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team
- Strong control framework
- Simple and efficient working
- Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation

Other contributions: Business Process Subject Matter Expert (SME)

? Act as a Subject Matter Expert on end to end processes
- Bring expertise on the end to end process with a strong focus on improving the efficiency of the Operating Model
- Develop a clear vision of the target processes including innovation / digital as the case may be
- Ensure to develop TOM / Processes in an industrialized manner and scalable (Absorb further business without inflating the cost propo